Gold Prospectors

[Anonymous]

Bought a new camera. Olympus EM1, mirrorless.



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Just messing with it...but its very sharp and the resolution is stunning.

That looks like a fossilized crocodile.

[Chuck Bronson]

Sadly, it's $5.00 for a cup of coffee in expensive, greed driven WA. A muffin will set you back another $5.00...

I guess it's all relative.



Here, a 'normal' medium or large coffee will usually cost around $2.00 CDN.  A muffin maybe about the same, but I don't buy muffins very often.



Our minimum wage is now $12.65 CDN in this Province, but I know OZ wages are higher, so do with the maths as you will!

[caskur]

Sadly, it's $5.00 for a cup of coffee in expensive, greed driven WA. A muffin will set you back another $5.00...

I guess it's all relative.



Here, a 'normal' medium or large coffee will usually cost around $2.00 CDN.  A muffin maybe about the same, but I don't buy muffins very often.



Our minimum wage is now $12.65 CDN in this Province, but I know OZ wages are higher, so do with the maths as you will!

Well our former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was shocked at what WA people paid for food and was public filmed choking on a price of a cup of coffeee... you know full well mining states pay through the nose.



Remember in the gold rush days, shovels and other items were artificially price inflated...



however, because our former dumb capitalist state government didn't sell our electricity to the evil Chinese government, our electricity prices aren't ruined like the poor bastards in the eastern states who are owned by the Chinese government....





We were one country where we all could have had it all... now we're slowly becoming a cesspool like the USA.





And yes, that makes me bitter and twisted.

[Chuck Bronson]

Remember though:  Capitalism is bad...  but socialism is even worse.



There's no easy answer or 'fix' for THAT problem...

[caskur]

Nah. I think its the same horse it just changes jockeys and if you haven't figured that out yet, I can't help.



faith in any "political ideology," is fruitless. They're all shit and they all deserve a slow painful death.



See what a cheerful person I am... :)

[Anonymous]

Sadly, it's $5.00 for a cup of coffee in expensive, greed driven WA. A muffin will set you back another $5.00...

I guess it's all relative.



Here, a 'normal' medium or large coffee will usually cost around $2.00 CDN.  A muffin maybe about the same, but I don't buy muffins very often.



Our minimum wage is now $12.65 CDN in this Province, but I know OZ wages are higher, so do with the maths as you will!

Well our former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was shocked at what WA people paid for food and was public filmed choking on a price of a cup of coffeee... you know full well mining states pay through the nose.



Remember in the gold rush days, shovels and other items were artificially price inflated...



however, because our former dumb capitalist state government didn't sell our electricity to the evil Chinese government, our electricity prices aren't ruined like the poor bastards in the eastern states who are owned by the Chinese government....





We were one country where we all could have had it all... now we're slowly becoming a cesspool like the USA.





And yes, that makes me bitter and twisted.

We were energy self sufficient before our current provincial government decided that coal power generatiion is killing the planet(it isn't)..



After three years in office, we have the highest carbon tax in Canada, business and residential power bills have soared and jobs have been lost..



As a Taiwanese who strongly dislikes China, we can't blame them for Alberta's failed energy policies.

[caskur]

I blame our stupid government privatizing everything... in other words, selling the family farm.



But, are you selling any of your ports in Canada to the Chinese government?  Do you think America is going to sell any of their ports to the Chinese?

[caskur]

Fash, you don't sound like you're unhappy about the Chinese government. You live in a clean environment with a small population... You're delusional if you think The Chinese are doing their best to make their citizens lives better. They certainly are not. They are state capitalists and force "communism" on the populace. They force their slaves to breath this air...



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[Anonymous]

I blame our stupid government privatizing everything... in other words, selling the family farm.



But, are you selling any of your ports in Canada to the Chinese government?  Do you think America is going to sell any of their ports to the Chinese?

In Canada, provinces with government owned power utilities have the highest electricity prices and are the least transparent.

[caskur]

You should demand transparency.

[Anonymous]

You should demand transparency.

Crown corporations and corruption go hand in glove. Patronage appointments to public owned companies by people who don't know and don't care about the industry they are in.

[Bricktop]

Western democracies are totally corrupt. The difference between criminal corruption and bureaucratic corruption is that the bureaucrats think that what THEY do is OK.



At least crims know they're committing criminal acts.

[caskur]

Western democracies are totally corrupt. The difference between criminal corruption and bureaucratic corruption is that the bureaucrats think that what THEY do is OK.



At least crims know they're committing criminal acts.

Agree totally.



It's so depressing.

[Chuck Bronson]

Occidental, Oriental, it makes no difference.  It also makes no difference who you vote for.  The game is rigged.  



I roll with the flow, as what else can one do?  When the time is right, I pack up and buy my 100 acre retreat.  I don't necessarily like people, as many have proven to me what they actually are.  There are some good ones left out there, but not many these days it seems...  I work with some really good guys on many of the jobs I work on...  Some of these guys are grade A customers, and a pleasure to work with.  I keep busy.



That's the only reason I'm even still here, in this immigrant infested shithole.



Nonetheless, ready to leave at any time, when the time is right.

[Bricktop]

I don't necessarily like people.

Understandable.



Nobody likes you either.